Stern v. Stern
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Sullivan, J.
The only issue in this proceeding in which the wife has obtained a judgment of divorce is the allowance to her counsel of a fee in the sum of $30,000 and disbursements of $7,500. We find the award to have been proper and, accordingly, would affirm.
As the dissent notes, there is no disagreement among us that the valuation placed on counsel’s services and disbursements by Special Term was fair and reasonable. But, unlike the dissent, we find the husband’s conduct to be so clearly obstructionistic as to warrant affirmance of the order, without remanding for an…
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